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Italy Emerges From Lockdown. Slowly.

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Politics, News, News Commentary

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

We spoke to Greta Privitera back in mid-March, a few weeks after she and her family isolated themselves at home in northern Italy. Now, with Italy taking baby steps toward normalcy, Greta says she’s enjoying her walks outside, she still worries about another surge in COVID-19 cases. And by the look of things, she's not alone.

Guest: Greta Privitera, a journalist living in Milan. Read her latest dispatch for Slate.  

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0:00.0

In Milan, Italy, Greta Privatara is coming out of a kind of coronavirus-induced hibernation.

0:11.7

Yeah, yeah. We are actually out from the lockdown right now.

0:17.8

Until last week, Greta, her husband, their two kids and their dog, have been under one of the

0:23.7

strictest stay-at-home orders in the world.

0:26.6

The whole region has.

0:28.3

And then last Monday, Greta stepped outside her gate for just the third time since February.

0:35.0

Does Italy opening up like this, does it feel like a relief?

0:38.6

Yeah.

0:39.2

Okay, in a certain way, it is a relief.

0:43.4

It's beautiful to walk outside.

0:46.2

It's beautiful to have back some of our freedom.

0:49.6

I was walking on the street by myself, and I was loving it.

0:53.7

It was noticing all those things that I forgot about.

0:57.0

Like, oh, at this street I gave my first kiss.

1:00.0

In this other street, I dreamt to live in that house.

1:03.0

In this other street, there's this beautiful tree.

1:08.0

Greta's getting wistful in this way,

1:10.0

because she can see the city around her changing.

1:13.6

It's no longer the place she grew up, but it's not the insular world she's inhabited for the past couple of months, either.

1:20.6

There's a new feeling that I found.

1:24.6

That is, also, you can have a nostalgia of the lockdown too in a certain way.

1:31.9

What do you miss? I miss the quiet. Like now I'm back to the sound like traffic, the cars are

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